Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall when thought leaders in structural heart talk heart to heart about building their program, the challenges, the triumphs and the big picture, now is your chance, take a listen.

Listen to Dr. Mani Vannan of Piedmont Heart Institute in Atlanta for a discussion on 3D transesophageal echocardiography. It’s quick, just 12 minutes, and sure to make you want to take a closer look at 3D TEE.

Listen to David O. Williams, MD, of Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Kalon K.L. Ho, MD, MSc of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as they discuss the role of IT in cardiovascular care in patient management, cost containment, workflow, best practices and reporting.

Workflow. Efficiency. The terms are bounced around every day in healthcare. But when it comes to the productivity and profitability of your radiologists and the department as a whole, the right PACS makes all the difference. Getting comfortable with a system can literally cost you hundreds of...

How Rad Groups are Joining Forces to Fortify Business: By collaborating instead of competing, radiology groups can leverage the power of their combined resources and data to speak with one voice and proactively build upon their ability to deliver the best possible service and...

With digital radiology, PACS and RIS in use for 15 years or more at most US hospitals, a disparate system architecture is now the reality for most departments. Multiple PACS and mini-PACS populate the environment, resulting in inefficiencies, increased operating costs, and reduced throughput for...

The disparate system architecture existing in most radiology departments today has resulted from the addition of multiple, dedicated workstations and mini-PACS to the environment without adequate integration into the workflow.

Dr. Michael Pfeiffer, a cardiologist and assistant professor of medicine at Penn State Hershey Heart and Vascular Institute in Hershey, Pa. discusses the advantages of 3D volume echocardiography in the right heart.

At the close of the CMIO Leadership Forum: Transforming Healthcare Through Evidence-based Medicine, we invited five luminaries to build on the abundant discussions and dive deeper into the quality of the evidence in medicine, the lack of evidence in many cases, the struggle to engage physicians...

With heightened interest and incentives for EMR and image and information sharing as part of a health information exchange—healthcare executives are focusing on coordinating their financial, clinical and technical resources on building and integrating a healthcare image and information archive...

In the quest to drive improved quality, the radiology department at the Oregon Health & Science University has embraced Agfa HealthCare IMPAX Business Intelligence to facilitate smart clinical and business decision-making and knowledge-building. The system provides historical, current, and...

Image quality is key when it comes to making accurate diagnosis and confident clinical decisions. Learn how the importance of certain criteria such as luminance, ambient lighting and automated calibration play a crucial role in image reading accuracy. Workflow benefits include increased physician...